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Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its 76-year history. O. Henry first-prize winners have included Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike, and Cynthia Ozick as well as some lesser know writers such as Alison Baker and Cornelia Nixon. Many talented writers who were unknown when first chosen for an O. Henry Award later went on to become seminal voices of contemporary American fiction. Representative of the very best in contemporary American fiction, these are varied, full-bodied fictional creations brimming with life--proof of the continuing strength and variety of the American short story.… (meer)
As the title suggests (in an awkward, weirdly backwards sort of way), this is a collection of the winners and runners-up in the 1997 O. Henry Award for short stories. Unsurprisingly, given that fact, they're all well-written, thoughtful, carefully crafted things. But... Well, they are very much part of what I think has to be called "the literary genre," and reading them does remind me that I often have some issues with this particular kind of writing. There were moments, as I read through these, when I couldn't help thinking that the author had prioritized cleverness of structure or originality and vividness of language over actually having things to say, and several more instances when I finished a story and found myself thinking, as I often do when people ramble on at me in person, "And you're telling me all this... why?" I can't remotely call any of them bad, but I can call a number of them vaguely unsatisfying. Then again, just when I'd get to the point of thinking, "Well, I guess these are somewhat interesting individually, but there may just be a limit to how much of this I really want to read," I'd come across a story like Alice Munro's "The Love of a Good Woman," which is "literary "without sacrificing actual story and does some wonderfully effective things with some very simple language, and I'd feel very glad about having picked this volume up, after all. ( )
Featuring the award-winning short story by Patricia Elam. And stories that show a growing trend toward heavy character-driven plots with little story line other than a small shift in character, or a conversation, very much what is becoming a modern method of storytelling. ( )
Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its 76-year history. O. Henry first-prize winners have included Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike, and Cynthia Ozick as well as some lesser know writers such as Alison Baker and Cornelia Nixon. Many talented writers who were unknown when first chosen for an O. Henry Award later went on to become seminal voices of contemporary American fiction. Representative of the very best in contemporary American fiction, these are varied, full-bodied fictional creations brimming with life--proof of the continuing strength and variety of the American short story.
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